Friday, August 12, 2011

This is a ????????

I think it's an immature rufous-morph red-tailed hawk but not sure. He's very thin, about a pound and a half, at least a half pound lighter than he should be. I say he but don't know if it's a male or female. Perhaps because of the size it is a female. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong but the starvation so he got fluids and mouse pieces this evening when I arrived back from gathering him about 17 miles up the Southfork Road near Cody. I'll let you know what I find out.

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Born in Downers Grove, IL, I moved to Cody in 1981 after living in Boulder, CO for many years. As I enjoyed the outdoors and spent many weeks up in Wyoming going on horsepacking trips with friends, I decided to move here. I started Ironside Bird Rescue in 1987 after finding an orphaned Starling baby that had fallen out of its nest near my house. One thing led to another and after all these years the facility now has many different sized mews and flight barns for the exercise of raptors so they will be strong enough for release. I live in a 130+ year old log cabin with a corgi mix dog, her mother, a purebread corgi, a couple cats and many birds in a free flight aviary attached to the house. I'm now retired from a "real job". Along with rehabbing birds, I spend a lot of hours volunteering at our local Buffalo Bill Historical Center in the graphics department.